Building Bridges over WBAI radio, 99.5FM
with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
Mon., April 1, 2013, 7 - 8 pm EST
********************************
Mississippiâs Nissan Factory Auto Workers
Bring Message of Workerâs Justice to NY International Auto Show
with
. Raphael Martinez, auto worker Canton, Mississippi
. James Brown, auto worker Canton, Mississippi

The United Auto Workers union launched a major union drive at
the transplant Nissan factory, in Canton, Mississippi in the heart of
the anti-union South. The Canton plant, with 3000 workers has wage
disparities with other Nissan plants, serious discord over limited and
onerous health benefits policies and is employing growing numbers
of temporary workers, creating a two-tier wage and benefit system to
both super exploit the part-time workers and undermine the maintenance
of a full-time work forceâs wages and benefits. Nissan has interrogated
workers about their involvement in organizing and forced them to attend
anti-union meetings several times a week and try to scare the workers
intimating that if they unionize the plant could close and they would lose
their jobs. But, the workers from this plant that can build 400,000 vehicles
per year are building support for worker justice, both nationally and
internationally and are now taking their message to consumers attending
the International Automobile Show in NYC.
**********************
Love, Justice, Family & Equality
with
Emily Hecht-McGowan, Family Equality Council

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in two potentially landmark
cases: the challenge to Proposition 8, which took away the freedom to
marry from same-sex couples in California, and the challenge to Section 3
of the misnamed "Defense of Marriage Act" (DOMA), which denies legally
married same-sex couples over 1,000 rights, protections and responsibilities
under federal law simply because they are gay. Emily Hecht-McGowan,
Dir. of Public Policy for the Family Equality Council joins us to look at
these two cases which could be a defining moment in the LGBT community's
decades-long struggle for equality under the law.
**************************
Childrenâs Voices On Love, Justice, Family & Equality
with
Zach Wahls

The son of two moms, Zach Wahls, speaks before the Democratic
National Convention on "My Two Moms"
***************************
Workers Rising, Low-Wage Worker Organizing
with
. Steven Greenhouse, journalist, NY Times
. M. Patricia Smith, Solicitor of the U.S. Dept. of Labor
. Dorian Warren, Assoc. Prof., Columbia University
. Angelo Falcón, Pres. and Founder, National Institute for Latino Policy
. Debra Axt, Co-Ex. Dir., Make the Road, NY

The Center for Popular Democracy and United NY organized Workers Rising,
a conference to celebrate and discuss the exciting new formations and activism
of low-wage workers in 2012 to drive that momentum towards more victories in
2013. In 2012, a wave of worker organizing rose across low-wage industries in
NYC and across the nation, propelled by workersâ anger at poverty wages and
intolerable working conditions. Supported by community, faith-based groups,
unions, and elected officials, these workers participated in nationwide protests
at Wal-Mart, led the first coordinated strikes in the history of Americaâs fast food
industry, unionized at car washes and groceries, and took on major NYC
retailers efforts to offer only part-time work.
*****************
Visit our web site -
www.buildingbridgesradio.org

plus-circle Add Review

comment

Reviews